Re: [TSVN] Hosting

2005/5/17, Lübbe Onken <luebbe@tigris.org>:

> > I have a slight problem with sourceforge: it doesn't do backups at
> > all! We'd have to backup our data ourselves regularly. And backups for
> > sourceforge are really necessary from what I've heard :(
>
> What would we be hosting on sourceforge? The content of our CMS which is
> currently about 100K uncompressed SQL. There's no need to backup the
> CMS itself because nothing is customised. What else do you want to
> backup? Don't tell me you want daily backups of installers. Sourceforge
> has got tons of download mirrors, so there are tons of backups.

You just installed the CMS - sure it's only 100K. Wait a little while
and it will grow.

> > And since Lübbe only has a dialup connection, that would leave the
> > whole backup stuff to me...
>
> I feel my dial up connection breaking down while downloading 100K...

I hear sarcasm here.

> My suggestion:
> tigris: repository, mailing lists and a download mirror for the msi files.

Why do we need a download mirror? See, *that's* one of the reason I
really hate having stuff on more than one hoster.

> sourceforge: main download site, issue tracker, CMS containing FAQ and

We already switched the download server once. And now, if people want
to download an older version (for whatever reason), they have to
search for it and search for it in different places (if they ever find
what they want). If we just kept the installers on tigris.org, we
wouldn't have that problem.

> You were complaining about complicated file release procedures on
> sourceforge / berlios. Today I mirrored the 1.1.7 release on sourceforge
> in 20 minutes of which I spent 10 downloading and uploading the msi
> files, because each ftp upload connection seemed to be limited to
> 30K/second. The other 10 were spent clicking and setting properties.

Ten minutes just for a release? Honestly, that's 8 minutes more than I
need on tigris.org: Uploading the files (not counted), right-click on
the file link, choose "copy link location", open the html-file of the
download page, select the 'old' links in there and hit Ctrl-V to
replace it with the new link.

Stefan

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